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Brad Hague
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Posted: 29 May 2019 at 7:16pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

I like Joe's better than Tom's inks. But the eyes still aren't right.

I think I'm going to have to say I wish John could have inked his own work on this. This was around the same time that when I saw John Byrne ink himself on his other books I felt it was the height of greatness. Along with George Perez inking himself on NTT covers.

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Alfredo Gonzalez
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Posted: 30 May 2019 at 9:17am \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Thanks for your comments Peter!

The background of stars I was trying several options, but it did not convince me at all ... When I started working on it I had not seen Rubinstein's solution, which seems more accurate than Palmer's, make a background that was not 100% black that does not invade the figure of the Surfer and make it stand out.

I tried to apply some shade / reflection to the table, but since I did not want to add modern coloring effects, I considered that leaving it with a continuous color was more appropriate.

What is an unforgivable mistake is not having faithfully followed the original illumination of John Byrne : '(

Again, thank you very much for your appreciations, with a criticism we learn more than with a compliment ;)

Greetings.

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John Byrne

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Posted: 14 April 2024 at 7:25pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Now that Tom is no longer with us, I feel I can express the disappointment I felt when I saw his inks on that Surfer job—and the relief when he told me all the changes he made were ordered by Shooter.

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Rodrigo castellanos
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Posted: 15 April 2024 at 7:25am \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

The original piece seems to be asking (to me, obviously) to be "painted" (meaning colored with brushes) instead of traditionally inked.

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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 19 April 2024 at 7:15pm \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

There is something appropriately alien about the length of the Surfer’s neck and torso.

Oh, and I prefer Mr. Rubenstein’s inked version over Mr. Palmer’s as well. (I really enjoyed the Byrne/Palmer pairing on XMHY though.)

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